Human Resource Management Today

Tiffin University

Nathan Curtis

August 11, 2013

Professor Klocinski

MGT317 Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management today has so many different roles within an organization today that they are consistently busy with many different areas of an organization. Human resource management is defined as “the utilization of individuals to achieve organizational objectives” (Mondy, 2012). However, the human resource department often has to go above and beyond the organization objectives in order to make sure they are achieving success. What I plan on showing in this paper is the overview of human resource management, the planning, recruitment, and selection process, and human resource development. Human resource management is divided up into many functions. The functions that a human resource manager will engage in are staffing, human resource development, compensation, safety and health, and employee and labor relations. The function of staffing is “the process through which an organization ensures that it always has the proper number of employees with the appropriate skills in the right jobs, at the right time, to achieve organizational objectives” (Mondy, 2012). Having run my own business for several years I was able to learn firsthand what it meant to be able to staff your own business. I owned a small electronic franchise store and was fortunate enough to be able to have a couple employees work for me when I could not be there. While I had plenty of applicants to choose from, I had to have people that had some skill when it came to working on computers and also had an extensive knowledge of electronics. If I would have hired people that did not have a clue about either I would be putting my business at risk of failure. However, what I learned during class this past seven weeks I would have been able to put together a job analysis and help save me some money and time. I kept employees on staff even though they were not always need and if I would have known then what I know now I would have been able to tailor my jobs I offered a little better. When it comes to human resource development it is defined as “a major function consisting not only of training and development but also of career planning and development activities, organization development, and performance management and appraisal” (Mondy, 2012). I think in larger organizations I think this is one of the most important areas of human resource management. The reason I say this is because once you are able to recruit the talented individuals you want to work in your organization you have to be able to develop them. What I mean by this is that in order to keep that talent within your organization you have to have a career plan in place for them so that they know they will have a place within your organization. What you generally do is setup a development plan for them or a career plan so you know what they are wanting out of the job in which they were hired. Also, this benefits the organization because now you are training individuals for when other positions open up. I did not have such a plan in place for my store because I knew that my employees where not there to stay but where there to gain experience. This is not to say that I did not set goals for them to achieve. Since it was not a career job for them I set sales goals for them to meet each month and this included selling cellular phones and DirecTV service. Plus most of the people I hired attended the local university and usually were majoring in computer science or information technology. Since they were already somewhat knowledgeable of computers it made it easy for us to build new systems and sell and repair other systems that may have been out of warranty. Other areas that human resource manager will find themselves being involved in are compensation, safety and health, and employee and labor relations. When it